Bikes

This is gonna be short.

We had good lessons with our investigators and they are all still progressing greatly! The Ward is fellowshipping them so well. We contacted some Less active referrals and were able to find their spouse interested in the Gospel, hyped about that.

The work is going great here still! We were able to find some great New Investigators and we’re excited! I love this work so much! I learn so much everyday! We keep seeing Faith building miracles everyday! The Church is true! Yesterday we learned in Church about how important family history work is! The people on the other side need us so badly and want us to do their work for them! I encourage you all to do so!

Love you all! Elder Anderson

Jacob trying to go big on a jump =)

Alexis and David

Last Monday we went on exchanges and I went with Elder Alton from Texas, he just finished being trained this past week and it is always fun to go out with the new missionaries!

Tuesday we all met at the stake center for Zone Breakfast and listened to everyone get there Transfer calls! That was fun, my Boi and I will be staying together! That night we had dinner with the Fagerston’s, a super fun young couple that met at BYU. haha

Wednesday was P day and we all went and played DISC GOLF! There are a lot of great courses out here! We had a lot of fun, and at the beginning they said whoever loses has to buy the winner lunch. We got playing and I won! So I got a free lunch at Wendy's! haha Good thing too because I was broke! That night we had dinner with the Nelson’s, super good food! It's always fun going to dinner because most people invite all 4 of us Elders over, so that’s cool! After that we had Ward Coordination at the Church, which is always great! This land is truly blessed! The Missionary work here is amazing!

Thursday Morning we had a lesson with Chinyere and Julius, Chinyere was the only one that sat in on the lesson and she pretty much talked to us the whole time, all about how she doesn't like the way we teach, or tons of crazy stuff. Then she said "stop trying to convert me, I am already a member of your church" CRAZY, she was already baptized in 2002 apparently. We’re gonna try and find her records this week! She is so crazy! Anyways later that day we had a great lesson with Rosie at the Church and gave her a church tour and taught her the Law of Chastity! It was great! Right after that we had a lesson with Alexis and David on The Plan of Salvation! I was hesitant to extend a baptism date, but the spirit told me to, so I did and that’s when they brought up how he can't get baptized because their living with each other and not married, and that they plan to get married now in Dec. or Jan. instead of 2020! So that was a huge MIRACLE! Super excited for them! Right after that we had a lesson with Reggie and Mike, two excommunicated members that are so AWESOME! They got excommunicated a long time ago, not sure why but they're awesome and want to be re-baptized! Mike has to quit smoking tho, he texted us on Monday saying that he is wanting to start the Stop Smoking Workshop so he cut up and threw away all the cigarettes and some members gave him a blessing. We came over that night for dinner and helped them out with the Stop smoking workshop! But he ended up smoking on Friday, but he isn't worried, it's a work in process and he will get it!

Friday we had D meet and some lessons, then helped a really overweight Investigator move. We moved her entire apartment while she sat there in her lazy boy. When we told her we had to leave early she got mad at us! So that was fun! Then we went to 5 guys with Sis Krsek and afterwards gave her a blessing to help her with her health problems!

Saturday we balled hard core in the morning and it was soooo much fun! Then Weekly planned and went by tons of people to help them come to church!

Sunday we were able to see Alexis and David there and Rosie, and Joe Smith!!! We were so happy! And in Gospel Principles they taught the Law of Chastity! Perfect for Alexis and David! Joe Smith loved it and the Ward loved him, because he is sooo cool! Another amazing week here in Cedar Rapids/Marion! The work is amazing, I’m so excited for the people we are working with and to watch their lives change! The Gospel is so true! This week I got reminded over and over by the spirit that the spirit is the only way for someone to know of the truthfulness of this Gospel!

Have a good week!

Love,

Elder Anderson

Elder Alton and I

Saying good bye to Elder Spencer & Marshall. They just went home!

WORK

I can not believe it's already Monday again! What is time? And another transfer gone. This is a 5 week transfer because President Badger has to go to a Mission President Training. So next Transfer will be 7 weeks. Not really a difference since we’re training, we will still have the 12 weeks unless one of us gets transferred this week but I doubt it.

This week was so busy and cold and wet! Tuesday it was our walking day and it was dumping down rain all day, but luckily they changed the walking day because it was raining so hard. But we still had to bike a little bit because we’re still in a car share. We also had a MIRACLE happen that day! We went to our lesson with Rosie and we got Scott Brough to come with us, he is a priest in the Ward who is thinking about going on a mission after a year in the army. I think it was great for him to come out with us and have an awesome lesson. We taught her the Word of Wisdom, and she was super excited to hear that because her Doctors had already told her to get off those things for her health! So that was one MIRACLE, then she was talking about all her nephews that she pretty much had to raise because their mom was never around. And she went into detail on one for some reason. But we soon found out that it was the spirit that led her to do it. Because she talked about one of her nephews who loves to cook and works at Red Robin and I asked, is his name Cameron? And she jumped out of her seat saying "You know Cameron Harris!?!" And I said ya we just went and ate at Red Robin a couple of nights ago and met him because he was super close to being baptized about a year ago, he even signed the Baptism sheet! So we told her we were meeting with him on Friday and she said she wanted to come and surprise him! So she did and he was so shocked and knew it was a blessing from the Lord! He is the NICEST guy ever too, just super chill and awesome! We’re so excited for them!

On Wednesday me and my Boy had to go to Iowa City for the Trainer Trainee meeting, that was fun. It was a great meeting and I got to get some WHITEYS! SO good! That night we had an awesome lesson with Alexis and David, David is now a new investigator! They’re so cool, but they didn't come to church yesterday. Not sure why but we will be meeting with them this week.  

Thursday we had Zone Conference, it was great! Learned a lot about being very bold and confident in everything we do. Like with Finding, Planning, and setting dates, and striving for stronger faith with all of those. After that we all went to Texas Roadhouse which was a lot of fun!

Friday morning is when we had breakfast with Cameron and Rosie and got to know Cameron. That was awesome too. HE even said he knows our Church is the true Church on earth, he now needs to be Baptized!! haha Also did a lot of finding and going by people this day. And had a super good Dinner with Sis Thornbloom, a super cool old lady who had all 4 of us over!

Then on Saturday we got to play Basketball in the morning with the stake, and a ton of non members that come out. And for this one African American family they come and just dunk on everyone! lol not me tho! But it is so much fun playing there! After that we went to the other Elders Baptism and it went great. Elder York and I got to teach the Restoration there. Then after that we got on the Bikes and started heading to an appointment and that was a long ride in the rain. We were completely soaked and covered in sand, just to find out he wasn't home. But we still met some cool people! And we had an adventure riding through a trail in the forest and I found the largest waterfall in Iowa, I’ll send pics! Overall it was an awesome week, stayed super busy, so that's super good! I love it when we are just going non stop! I Know this work is true!!

Love, Elder Anderson

Iowa’s Largest Waterfall! haha

Big Jake

My District

Miracles Everywhere!

Miracle #1

Monday we helped a super solid Referral from a member move in, it's a couple and he is a prospective Elder and she isn't a member. But she asked about how to get Baptized and join the Church. MIRACLE. But she is in the other Elders area, so they will be teaching them, but that's fine!

Miracle #2

Bro Bailey a member challenged me to some Tennis!! So we went and played one morning and it was awesome! He is older so I stomped on him, but man the memories of Tennis all day every day were flowing in! I Love TENNIS!

Miracle #3

Solid lesson with Sis Merritt, she is still super Golden. We had a lesson at the Church with Bro Sherwood the Ward Mission Leader. It was an awesome lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Miracle #4

As we were planning I found a totally random member to go by and we went by and a cool guy in his 20's came out asking if we were looking for Alexis and we said we were. He let us in and we got talking to the both of them. They both moved here a couple of months ago. She is a member that has been inactive for a little while, both from L.A. she got Baptized when she was about 19, he isn't a member but wants to be! They told us his job just let him have Sundays off so now he can start coming to Church, and they were both talking about missionaries recently and then we showed up completely out of the blue. They both came to church and told us to come over this week to teach them! MIRACLE! I couldn't believe it! So Awesome! Except they don't plan on getting married until 2020 because weddings are expensive! haha Hopefully we can change that real quick!

Miracle #5

We got our Investigator Ryan to Church! We went with a member to pick him up and he came and right before sacrament meeting was over he asked where’s the bathroom, and left. We guess he walked all the way home! Which was quite a walk! haha we were sad that he just bailed like that. We will see if we can contact him this week.

Miracle #6

So on Friday we went by our Investigator Julius and he said to text him sometime on Sunday to set something up, but we totally forgot. Then we went to Wal-Mart this morning and BOOM, he was there and we got to meet his wife! His wife has met with missionaries a lot before in Canada and Texas, and she has gone to Church a lot! So we got an appointment for this week and are super pumped for them!

This week has been awesome! Just full of Miracles! We were also able to get in contact with a lot of Less actives that we have been trying to meet with. Sis Merritt came to Church and loved it, we haven't been able to set a solid date for her to be Baptized yet but it should be around the beginning of November! Also had Interviews with President and that went great! We all went out to a great restaurant after!

The Church is true! I love this Gospel, I love reading The Book of Mormon everyday, and praying about it everyday! You can never pray to know if The Book of Mormon is true enough. I know that it is true but I have seen that still praying about it strengthens my testimony! I love you all! Love, Elder Anderson

Our zone with President & Sister Badger

My boy, passed out =)

GENERAL CONFERENCE

What a weekend watching the Apostles of Jesus Christ speak to us! I loved all the talks and learned so much! We watched all the sessions at the Cedar Rapids Stake Center, brand new Stake Center too. Some talks that stood out to me were Elder Eyring's and Tad R Callister's! Elder Eyring's were so powerful and the spirit testified to me so strongly, gave me chills! Tad R Callister's was a big answer to my prayers and to my question, very powerful and clear!

This week we were super busy, we have been trying to free up our evenings to be able to go knocking when people are home but about everyday this week we had things going on.

Tuesday: We spent some time going by some Less Actives and Ex communicated members. We met some awesome people who are ready to change and come back to Church. Also had a lesson with Rosie, we taught her more about The Book of Mormon and General Conference, with Bro Bailey there, and it went great. She watched Conference and loved it!

Wednesday: We were going all day with District Meeting and another lesson with Rosie with our Ward Mission Leader Bro Sherwood who is a convert and the lesson was powerful. Bro Sherwood helped Rosie so much! That Night we had dinner at a nice restaurant with a member, then had Ward Coordination meeting at the Church, and man this ward is Awesome! Their truly doing their part in the Missionary work here and helping soooo much!

Thursday was my first day on the mission where I got to ride bikes!!! It was awesome! We rode around all day going by people and knocking, also spent the night helping a recent convert move.

Friday: I went on exchanges with Elder Jacobson from Springville, UT. That was fun, we did a lot of knocking in his area.  

Saturday and Sunday we spent most of the day watching conference and eating. Since we were a ways out of our area we couldn't get out to work since we had to save miles.

Great week tho, the Ward is giving a lot of solid Referrals so I am super pumped to see the success in this area! I know that this work is so true and the Apostles and Prophet are truly called of God, I loved being able to listen to them. I was sad to hear about Elder Hales, glad he went peacefully, he was a very powerful man. Sad to see that Thomas S Monson couldn't make it, I hope all is well with him. Love you all! Elder Anderson

On Bikes!

We got stranded with no car or bikes, so we bought some PIZZA!

Investigators

First week in Cedar Rapids down!! I have learned that this is a blessed place with a lot of AWESOME people! Great Ward and people to talk to!

Tuesday:

We finally got into our apartment, we moved the Zls in to there new apt and then Elder and Sister Martin a senior couple took us all out to Pizza Ranch for lunch! Pizza Ranch is a lot like Pizza Pie Cafe, except some different pizzas, and they have Ice Cream!

Wednesday:

We have Zone Exercise in the mornings, so we all go to the Stake center and play ball or frisbee so that’s fun!  We also had District meeting after that. We also had our first lesson with Rosie, Sis Gardners friend that has been coming to church. She is so awesome and so Prepared! We can’t wait for her to progress to Baptism.

Thursday:

Went by some formers and did a lot of knocking

Friday:

Found some awesome Former Investigators that want to start learning again! Also a lot of knocking and New Investigators.

Saturday:

We did some service for Bro and Sis Novak and helped them in their yard. Then lots of knocking. Saturdays are rough tho, Cause no one is home! You would think they would be, but no one was around! Same with Sundays.  

Sunday: We had Ward Council and then Church. Great time at Church, sadly no investigators there yet, but next week!  

Training has been great, my boy is pretty prepared so he is catching on quickly. Except for the sleep part, he has been exhausted lately. haha Since we’re both new to the area we have had some long days knocking doors. I wouldn't say long, they all go by so fast. We also found 10 new investigators this week. Quite a while ago I stopped asking people if they were interested and just start teaching the Restoration. If their really not interested then they will interrupt us, or if they're not prepared. This way we teach instead of knock haha. My voice hurts at the end of the day because everyone we talk to we’re teaching. TEACH TEACH TEACH, it’s the most important thing. If someone is not interested at the end of the lesson, then it is still such a bigger seed planted then just asking if they’re interested at the first. So things are great out here, my boy is catching on quick with all this teaching, we now have a lot of investigators to try to work with so this week hopefully we can follow up with all the return appointments and get people to church.

I hope you're all super excited for General Conference, on my mission I actually listen to it so I found out its awesome! haha I invite you all to watch it with a Question that you want answered. I definitely am going to. I can’t wait!  

Love you all! Elder Anderson

I gave my Boy a fresh cut!  hahaha

Cedar Rapids and a Boy

Well this week was exciting!

Tuesday we got our Transfer calls! I am getting transferred already, I am now in Cedar Rapids training Elder York! Fresh out of the MTC. He is from Phoenix, Arizona. He is pretty interesting, I'm sure I am going to learn a lot these next 2 transfers! So Tuesday we got the call and then went on exchanges, I went and said goodbye to who I could. We went to say goodbye to Jessi and as soon as we got there she came outside while on the phone, so we waited and then she hung up and she told us she just got off the phone with the Girl Jessi's husband Brandon had been cheating on her with. She started crying and we felt so bad and didn't know what to do, we just talked for a little while and tried to comfort her. I believe everything happens for a reason, I think her and Brandon might need to split. Brandon hasn't been able to give up his bad habits. I'm not sure what’s happening now but Jessi is so strong. She told us before we left she needed to go read The Book of Mormon to feel better, which was awesome!  

Well Thursday we went to Iowa City for the New Trainers meeting and to pick up my Boy. Then we left to Cedar Rapids with the other two Elders we are sharing a ward with. As for now we have been living with them until we move into our apartment on Wednesday. Things are good and we already found 5 New Investigators since we have been here, I have heard so many great things about this area and can’t wait to get to work here!  

Yesterday at Church a member brought a friend, her friend has come a few times and really loves it so we are gonna start teaching her. The Ward here is so awesome, they really play their part in Missionary work! It's so cool! I’m so excited to be here! Thank you all for everything.

Love, Elder Anderson

Good bye to Jessi & DJ

My Boy - Elder York

Goodbye to Luis

P day Squad

3 in 1

3 weeks in one? I’ll try to keep this short!

Well pretty much the last 3 weeks have been very busy and exhausting! But super productive! The work has been great! Last week Jessi Gobble got Baptized! Along with Hardy Kasalou, the Sisters here in Marshalltown taught Hardy and we decided to have both their Baptisms on the same night! And it all went great. Elder Dunn Baptized Jessi and Confirmed her yesterday. It was all awesome! Jessi even bore her testimony and it was super powerful! She already has a strong testimony, her husband was even able to make it to the Confirmation.

Over the last 3 weeks we have had Exchanges, Interviews, Zone Conference, and they were all great. All of those are great learning opportunities that they give us and I appreciate them! I also feel like I get something from each one of those.

We had 3 people at Church Yesterday, that was awesome. One of them was Shawn and it was his first time! He got there like an hour early too! haha and he asked us who he needs to see to get Baptized and he asked if he could do it right now. haha He said he had a change of clothes and everything! He is super cool and said he will be coming back!

Well that’s all I can remember it’s all a big blur when I look back. haha Time flies out here. I have really enjoyed my studies lately, idk what it is but we have ran into a lot of people that want to tear down my testimony lately! Lots of rude people, and people that claim they have picked apart the Book of Mormon for 40 years, and people wanting to bash, and people cussing us out and laughing at us. But it’s all part of my personal conversion.

The Ap's have given us a Calendar called 13 weeks to Consecrated. So everyday we study a few pages out of Preach My Gospel, a Chapter a week. It’s been a big help, I LOVE PREACH MY GOSPEL. It helps with everything! I have learned so much, doing all the activities and reading all the scriptures. It has strengthened my testimony in so many ways! I encourage you all to read Preach My Gospel more and it will help you share the Gospel and Bless your life. God Promises Eternal blessings to those who share his Gospel. He will bless you forever! He promises that and I think that's amazing!

Love you all!

Elder Anderson

Jessi's Baptism

Jessi, Hardy, Elder Dunn

Hardy

Hardy has so much SWAG! Always looks so fresh at church

Recent converts

Our district, the biggest in the mission

Golf in a suit

Waves of corn!

Our place, we play ball outside in the mornings. Big blessing!

=)

JESSI

Hello, I’m back!

Last Monday we got to give a few people blessings in the Morning and that took awhile so we grabbed some lunch and went to play Basketball! We wanted to ball more than we wanted to email, haha. But I am really grateful for the time they give us to email you guys!

I dont have anytime tho. All is well and Jessi Gobble is getting baptized this Friday! She is so excited and so are we, she is super prepared!  

Love you all! Elder Anderson

Praying With Drunks

Great week!

Last Monday we had a bunch of Chinese guys come play ball for P day! One was a recent convert and some of the other ones are investigators! And they were all pretty good at ball! So that made P day fun! That night we went to the Sanchez Family for family night, and the Dad doesn't speak any English so most of the time everyone is speaking Spanish so I just sit there and act like I'm paying attention when I have no idea what’s going on! Haha

Some Highlights from the week are when we prayed with drunks. Haha So we went by an African family that we found and they are already members but they haven't gone for a little while, they were Baptized a year ago in Kansas. Their house has close to nothing in it, not even mattresses or a couch, they sleep on blankets, it's so sad, we have been trying to find them some free stuff. But the Mom has gotten back into smoking and drinking so she wants us to help. Her brothers are always outside on the lawn drunk and smoking and causing neighbors to get mad. The one drunk brothers name is Jimmy and he is always drunk and on something and the whole town knows him! haha But he said "Let's Pray, Let's Pray"  so we said ok, then we were all holding hands praying when a lady in a nice big truck rolled up and started yelling at Atong the mom. She was furious that the drunks were still there, then she called the cops and had the cops tell them to leave! haha We were just awkwardly sitting there in the middle of it all.

Another Highlight is when I went on exchanges with a missionary that just got to the mission field 2 weeks ago. I thought it was the perfect time to take him to Mike Curly, the crazy, insane excommunicated member. Haha We went and I let him go first and Mike was going crazy, and he just talks so fast and is always running around asking questions and talking about his home made wine, and why they excommunicated him. Haha the Greenie was so shocked, and for the rest of the night he was like "Why did you take me there!!"

We have Jessi Gobble as our best Investigator right now, she will be getting baptized on September 8th. She is really cool except she has had a very tough life. She has lost around 5 kids, all when they were very young or not even born yet, because of her husband. He is a recovering drug addict, lots of meth. He is not allowed to live with her right now but he will be soon. He smokes a lot, and Jessi has recently quit smoking because she is ready to give it up and come to Christ and be baptized. She has 2 kids right now, and I really hope things will go good for her, she is really excited to be Baptized. Lately she has had really bad migraines, but she is still coming to Church and we had a good lesson yesterday with the Dunn’s the Senior Missionary couple. We taught her Tithing and Fast Offerings. She loved it and said she is already doing it! So that was awesome!  Keep her in your Prayers.

We have Luis Mora also, he is in his 30's from Mexico, speaks good English, and is dating a member that lives in Honduras. They met each other on line and he just got back from meeting her and her family for the first time. He came to Church for the first hour and had to leave for some reason. His date is to be Baptized Sept. 23rd, but he might wait because he is going to Honduras again in December and might get Baptized down there so his Girlfriend can be there. But we encourage him to do it as soon as possible because, Satan will work on you harder and harder if you wait. We will see what he decides.

We have Brandy, a girl we met this week. she is kinda shy and pretty weird, but we taught her twice this week. She came to church for all 3 hours and found out that some members in the Ward are her Grandparents by Marriage! So that's awesome! Instant fellow shippers! So we’re excited for her!

We have found 6 new investigators this past week, one couple that is super sick! The guy had a nice haircut and said he cuts hair and said he would cut ours for free! They also said they have been looking for a church and then we showed up. Their so cool, I sure hope they don’t get antied, because she was looking Thomas S. Monson up online. haha Usually that ends up in the people seeing anti.

This is really long but it was another great week, my love grows for this work every day! I love talking to people about the Gospel constantly and finding ways to make it more and more fun! This week I have been cruising thru the Book of Mormon, I love the stories and the great teachings it has. I encourage you all to read as much as possible from the Book of Mormon everyday. It truly will bring you closer to Christ and will make your day so much better!  

Love,

Elder Anderson

Our backyard

Something Cool

This week was fun, last Monday we played ball with the District, it was pretty good ball. But the Zone leaders don’t come every week so today we didn’t have very good ball, kind of a bummer.

Tuesday we did service for a really cool/funny member. After, he played us in pool and foosball in his man cave! He is really good at pool, and thinks he is really good at foosball. But this week I’m gonna show him a thing or two! haha He is one of those guys that used to play pool, foosball, air hockey, darts and what not for a living! Pretty cool. I’ll keep you updated haha

Wednesday we did a triple blitz in our area, so two other companionships came and we hit our area hard! It was fun, I went with Elder Dunford and he is from San Diego, so we had fun talking about that haha. We went to Eldora, Iowa it’s 40 minutes from Marshall Town but is a nice little town out in the middle of nowhere. The people were super nice but nobody wanted to listen. That night we hunted some possums with golf clubs in our back yard, because there is a ton of them! We got one tree'd but never got it down haha. And we thought we found another one, so we ran after it but it was a skunk so we ran back! I wasn't about to get sprayed!

The rest of the week we had District meeting and the car appreciation day where we walk all day long. Luckily it hasn't been hot here at all! Which is crazy for the middle of August out here. So we talked to a lot of people. We got dropped off by a member one day to go by someone and right when we got out a guy from the 2nd story of an apartment building was yelling "come here come here quick!" And we were like is he talking to us? haha So we went and the guy was pretty Psycho and talking super fast and running around putting clothes on and cleaning up his house. And he yelled I’m a returned missionary! Long story short he got excommunicated for some reason. Probably cause our WML said he got caught growing weed on his front porch and who knows what. He is pretty creepy, but I mentioned my dad served in the same mission he did and around the same time. So he freaked out trying to think if he new my dad. Then we left and were at the library taking mormon.org time and he walked in and said "there they are!" haha and came and talked to us and said he had an Elder Anderson as his companion but he wasn't sure if it was the same one. But he said he was going crazy and riding his bike everywhere to find us and doing research to see if he knew him. Haha Im sure we will run into him again so we will see what happens!

Anyways we have some great investigators, not as many as I would like, so hopefully we can change that this week. One of them is Jessi Gobble, her husband is a member but very inactive and is a drug addict. He is in a halfway house, so like half jail I think. haha He isn't a very good man idk why she is with him, but his parents are active members and that’s how they found Jessie and we have been teaching her with the Dunns, a senior couple that works in Marshall town also, so she is on date to be Baptized Sept 2nd.

Also we have Luiz who is dating a member that lives in Honduras and he just got back from visiting her, so he should be getting baptized soon also!

Sorry this is so long, I don’t have pictures this week!  Love you all!  Keep praying and going to church!

Love, Elder Anderson

Marshall Town

Well I have been transferred to Marshall Town, Iowa! My new Companion is Elder Dotimas, he is from Maryland, originally from the Philippians. He is a Spanish Elder so we do a lot of Spanish lessons where I pretty much just sit there! haha He can speak Tagolick, Spanish, English, and some Martial Ease. Pretty cool! Man I really wish I would have learned a language now! Marshall Town is kinda smaller, still a good size tho.  Lots of Mexicans, cool little town overall! Yes there are still waves of corn just on the outside of town! We live with members in the basement, they are old and don’t do much or go anywhere. But it is a nice house, and we have a nice place, with sleep number beds, there so cool, they move up and down and give massages! haha  We drive a 2015 Subaru Legacy, it’s pretty nice!

Well It was hard leaving east Moline, I really loved that area but I'm excited to be here! I don’t know much about our area yet. We have just been finding and teaching some investigators that they already have. We found a few new investigators that are pretty cool and one of them gave us awesome ceramic dragons! He paints them and just gives them away to people!

In East Moline I had to say goodbye to Demetrice! I was so sad, he is super solid and I hope he can continue to progress. Me and him got along great, but the relationship wasn't the same with my comp that is staying there, and I don’t think the new guy will get along with him as well as we did! I hope he can keep going!  Demetrice also came to Tuesday night ball! So sick!

Well I’m Excited to be here in Marshall Town, I love My New Companion he is super funny! And We had one cool Investigator at church that I haven't really gotten to meet yet. I will let you guys know more next week!

Love you all!

Elder Anderson

Goodbye to Tom Parsons, one of the Recent Converts in East Moline

Goodbye to Elder Baxter, he returned home from his mission last week! He was a stud and I learned a lot from him!

Saying goodbye to the stud Demetrice!

Last Week in East Moline?

Hello Everyone,

Transfers are this week and I most likely will be getting transferred, we find out tomorrow. This week was a good one even tho I got a really bad cold out of nowhere! I don't know why I always get colds. But Hopefully it’s gone soon.

This week we spent more time knocking to save miles, and we did a ton of knocking. We found a few new investigators and had a few guys get really mad at us for coming to their house. Some people have some serious hatred towards us for some reason, and they use colorful language! Haha

The best thing from this week is that we got an awesome new investigator on Saturday and he came to church on Sunday! We knocked on his door and he let us in! He is a black midget and he is awesome! I think he is in his 20s and lives alone, never really gone to a church before but is really willing to learn. He came to church for all 3 hours and stayed for the ward pot luck afterwards! Same with our other investigator Francine, I was so glad to have both of them there! Demetrice is the new guys name and we set a baptism date with him for the 9th of September! Now I wanna stay here in this area, but I don't think I will make it another transfer.

We played a little more ball with some guys on the streets and that was fun, I sure hope a lot of guys show up for ball on Tuesday night! Have a Great week Everyone!

Love, Elder Anderson

John Deere World Headquarters

We saved this racoons life

Me and some corn